Fresh/Brewed

This is not a sharp picture - not even that good. I was flying early in the morning friday July 19th when I realized something was really wrong. The ticket counter was in a flurry of checking lists and creating paper tickets. I would learn within 30m that Spirit Airlines was SOL in the airport and the TSA was checking my paper ticket against printed manifests. I couldn't be prouder of my own teams at work for having dug in and weathered the Crowdstrike storm - it's a testament of having skilled, available and committed SREs. By the time I landed and was back at my desk to help, the main production systems were healthy. I can't really speak to the rest - but my day wrapped later than usual friday but it was an amazing team effort and really, I couldn't be prouder of the people I work with at WellSky

Ansible and Terraform: Better Together

Published Mar 27, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

We know that we can use Terraform to build out repeatable infrastructure with code. However, we often have to solve provisioning in a second pass. That can be using Packer or Ansible or other too...

KubeDNS with CoreDNS and Stub Domains

Published Mar 21, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Recently, I’ve needed to address questions around DNS in Kubernetes. I figured it might be worthwhile to review Kube DNS and show how we can change it for local DNS entries.

Internal.io

Published Mar 17, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Internal.io is a low-code/no-code internal tooling site aimed at Developers, Ops, SRE, DevSecOps; anyone looking to make quick internal integrations and reports.

AWX: Adding Variables to Ansible Playbooks

Published Mar 14, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Recently, quite haphazardly, I discovered my secondary test cluster was operating entirely over the Wifi NIC. I realized this was both inefficient and problematic as my wifi router can be spotty i...

NGrok: A simple DyDns Reverse Proxy

Published Mar 9, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I have come across NGrok in a few tutorials over time. It provides a fantastic service that is basically a dynamic DNS plus reverse proxy in one. It makes exposing ones internal service fantastica...

Feedback Forms: JIRA, Discord, Keybase, Teams and Datadog

Published Mar 7, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

We have handled Slack and Github Issues thus far and we’ve leveraged Azure DevOps in the past as well. Today, let’s focus on JIRA and Discord. We’ll set up notifications on Slack, Discord, Keybas...